2 Samuel 7:18

David Offers a Prayer to God

7:18 King David went in, sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, 1  that you should have brought me to this point?

2 Samuel 23:5

23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, 2 

for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,

arranged in all its particulars and secured.

He always delivers me,

and brings all I desire to fruition. 3 

2 Samuel 11:11

11:11 Uriah replied to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord’s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations 4  with my wife? As surely as you are alive, 5  I will not do this thing!”

1 tn Heb “house.”

2 tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”

3 tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”

3 tn Heb “and lay.”

4 tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”